>>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-23352230
>>They wouldn't have needed to apologise to me :-}
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>Exactly $92,233,720,368,547,800? I see.
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>That's 147AE 147AE 147D8 in hexadecimal.
>Doesn't seem to be random.
>The difference between 147D8 and 147AE is 42.
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>In binary, it's: 101000111101011100001010001111010111000010100011111011000
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>If we break those binary digits out into parts, we see a repeating pattern as well, with one bit at the end:
>101 000 1111 -- 5 0 15
>010 111 0000 -- 2 7 0
>101 000 1111 -- 5 0 15
>010 111 0000 -- 2 7 0
>101 000 1111 -- 5 0 15
>101 1000 -- 5 8, or if we use 1011000 as one value it's 88, just like "88 miles an hour" in "Back to the Future"! LOL! :-)
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>Just freaky.
>
>It's probably some "covert" message being reported widely, out in the open, and not just some random accident.

Wasn't '42' the answer to the meaning of life, the universe and everything?
(Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)